Category: News

Don’t embarrass your allies, please practice the integrity we’d like to see in the world.

I think this part of how fascism is spreading. One way to oppose bad ideas is to have good ideas supported with factual evidence. We must insist your “facts”, be facts.

Allowing manipulative tactics like fabrication of emotionally jarring exaggerated statistics further pollutes discourse by conceding that the truth is not important. And at least for progressives, it actually discredits the position being taken. Apparently, the far-right is not interested when we fact-check their claims, but we are interested.

Gun violence is a crisis in the United States, especially for children, and a huge number — one that needs no exaggeration — have been affected by school shootings. An ongoing Washington Post analysis has found that more than 150,000 students attending at least 170 primary or secondary schools have experienced a shooting on campus since the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. That figure, which comes from a review of online archives, state and federal enrollment figures and news stories, is a conservative calculation and does not include dozens of suicides, accidents and after-school assaults that have also exposed youths to gunfire.

For years, he had claimed his enemies were stalking him. But when police arrested the gunman minutes later, they identified him as 29-year-old John Patler: Rockwell’s neo-Nazi protege.The killing made international headlines and led to a bizarre standoff over the Nazi’s body. It also crippled his party, which soon sank back into obscurity.

Video of Harris’s beating tore through the Internet. The ferocity of the assault heightened the public outcry over the rally, where a driver also plowed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer . James Alex Fields Jr., 20, has been charged with murder in her death. The rally was organized to oppose the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue from Emancipation Park.

After the event, critics questioned the strategy and planning of the Charlottesville Police Department, whose officers frequently stood to the side and did not try to halt skirmishes or get between ralliers and counterprotesters. In December, an independent review commissioned by the city was released, and it concluded that the department’s planning was “inadequate and disconnected” and that the officers’ lack of preparation led to “disastrous” consequences.

In a Showtime interview of Russian President Vladimir Putin by American film-maker Oliver Stone, which started airing on June 12th, Putin called “lies” many of the allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies, to the effect that he or his government attempted to influence the outcome of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. He also accused the U.S. government of having actually done not only that (influencing other countries’ democratic process), but far more actual meddling in Russian elections, and in the elections in other former Soviet-and-allied countries, and even done it in recent times, and even done it to countries that had never been friendly toward Russia.The way he asserted this accusation was veiled, however, so that he didn’t identify the specific governments he was referring to, other than to say: “In 2000, and in 2012, this always happened. But especially aggressively in 2012. I will not go into details.” (This article will supply some of those “details,” in what follows.) Putin described the current accusations against Russia, by the U.S. government, as a deceitful and fictitious tat, which ignores the very real and longstanding American tit, of CIA and other U.S., meddling in the electoral processes of foreign countries.

At a time of US responsibility for dismal East/West relations, Angela Merkel will meet one-on-one with Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia on Tuesday for the first time in two years.

According to the Kremlin press service, both leaders will discuss “key international problems, including the fight against terrorism, the situation in the Middle East, and the implementation of the Minsk agreements aimed at resolving the Ukrainian crisis,” along with the current state and prospects for improving dismal bilateral relations, notably on trade.

Things were further strained after Germany’s Bundestag was cyberattacked in late April 2015, falsely blamed on Moscow.

Hostility toward Russia remains intense in America and Europe, including a steady stream of anti-Russia disinformation.

Ahead of Merkel’s trip, NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence director Janis Sarts said Germany anchors the EU, falsely adding “Moscow equates a strong Europe with a weakening of Russia’s position and that is the reason for” the cyberattack.

Moscow had nothing to do with it. Nor is it interfering in upcoming French and later in the year German elections. Sarts lied claiming Russia wants Ukrainian territory annexed.

Having worked in a public school for ten years until being illegally fired, I will say this: Nobody wants the job so bad she would put herself through this for political motivations. Yeah right. There were questions about the leadership of every principal. These parents are such cowards. They must be grumpy and stiff with prune juice. They are old. We don’t have to listen to old people, ha ha ha

The other thing I learned with certainty is kids don’t think things are weird until their parents teach em too

At a meeting held to inform parents about the changes on Feb. 12, some of them brought up issues with Daniels’ record, citing grievances brought by teachers. Two even went so far as to question whether the transition was being made to protect Daniels’ position and whether a transgender principal would be in a “protected class” and could not be replaced.

Angelakis, who declined to discuss personnel issues that night, fiercely pushed back at such assertions. But parents also questioned her leadership in a time of upheaval and Daniels’ willingness to participate in interviews with The Boston Globe and other news outlets.

On March 1, a group of parents gave the School Committee a letter they deemed a vote of “no confidence” in Daniels, pointing to issues that predated the transition, and the distraction it caused.

“Throughout the past few school years, many concerns have been raised regarding Ms. Daniels’ leadership, specifically regarding trust, collaboration, decision-making, and communication with staff and families,” the parents wrote. “We also believe that Ms. Daniels has failed to present a proper learning environment and has not put the safety of our children/students first. We believe that all students will succeed in a climate that fosters a passion for learning, one where they will not be interrupted by outside factors that have a negative impact on their learning environment.”The petition also faulted Daniels for creating a “toxic environment for both students and staff,” being unwilling to listen, and for delayed or incomplete communication. “We need a different, more solid leadership,” the parents wrote. “The morale is too low, and it is time for a change.”

States have always release propaganda to combat honest journalism. What the state conspires to do to you or to brothers and sisters in your neighborhood is atrocity. The state and whatever criminals win office will obfuscate their crimes with fabricated convenient lies propagating the fallacy of reducing agency for the individuals at the mercy of political opponents committing even greater atrocity. The governing bodies of the international expose the lie. Then baseless and unchallenged accusations hang around any conversation of resistance. The well-read observer examines the intentions and motivations of propaganda by authority.

Somewhere someone it’s going to be desperate and delusional enough to believe the self-serving analysis of propaganda that funny and harmless outlandish slander triggers the pavlovian response in some rando white male. He’s been on the regular choosing to be swayed by lies. He’ll argue counter-productively with the ribbon shreds of the irrelevant party line and then: snap!

Never mind. I can’t stand up for anyone’s freedom to consume poison. Alex Jones teaches and compels you to spread the poison lies of t

he state. White pride is subjugation of the world.

Lack of disclosure has allowed the explosion of “dark money” political advertising and fake news that dominated social media during the 2state sources016 election. In response, Democratic Representative Derek Kilmer of Was

hington introduced The Honest Ads Act of 2017. This long-overdue legislation seeks to bring our elections into the 21st century by requiring social media companies to publish information about who is paying for political ads.

While the Honest Ads Act is sorely needed, I worry it will never become law.

So I am not waiting for Congress, and I encourage others to join me. As a shareholder in Alphabet/Google, I recently worked with Arjuna Capital to file a shareholder resolution asking the company to report in a comprehensive, serious way on the threat posed by so-called fake news and election interference and how they intend to deal with it. A similar effort is underway by shareholders at Facebook and Twitter, where the “fake news” problem is perhaps even worse.

If shareholder advocacy seems like a roundabout and arcane way to provide more transparency in political advertising, consider that Google, Facebook and Twitter are now the key platforms for Americans to get their information. And while we can’t count on Congress to pass laws promoting transparency, there is another kind of law that Google and Facebook can’t ignore: the law of the marketplace. If Facebook and Google become dumpster fires of disinformation, their user base could disappear as quickly as it appeared. If you don’t believe that, look up the people behind Napster, MySpace and AOL and ask them what it was like to be on top of the world one day and a footnote to history five years later.

So, obviously, Congress should pass the Honest Ads Act to promote more transparent political discourse and a healthier democracy. But shareholders should also urge social media companies to comprehensively address the corrupting influence of “fake news” and the threat it poses to the continued viability of their business models – which are entirely dependent on advertising. Common sense tells us that if you can’t trust the search results on Google or your news feed on Facebook, you’ll simply stop using these platforms. And the advertisers will take their dollars elsewhere.

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From rfi eng (March 17th, 2018) Ten years after being rounded up in a well-publicised raid by anti-terror police, defendants in a trial for the alleged sabotage of a rail line did their best to ridicule the prosecution and show their lack of respect for the court this week. The case, which started out as an accusation of a terrorist plot, appears to have bee […]

From First of May Anarchist Alliance By A, First of May Anarchist Alliance – Michigan Collective. Over one million high school students walked out of class on Wednesday, March 14th 2018 in what was the biggest school walk out protests since the Vietnam War. These students have been raised with school shootings being a norm. As they march out of class and int […]

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